TUG has hit Steam Early Access, and all correctly-tiered backers will be receiving their Steam code (or DRM-free download code) promptly! For those of us who didn’t back the original campaign, no big deal, we can still go right on over to TUG’s Steam page…
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Nathaniel Liles is a freelance writer, writing major, and indie musician based in Southern Indiana. While procrastinating or avoiding real-world responsibility, Nathaniel enjoys playing rhythm games, action RPGs, and very colorful games with many bright, flashing lights. You can listen to Nathaniel sing songs or download his music for free at http://nathanielliles.bandcamp.com/.
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Today, we bring you a unique and interesting title currently seeking funding through Kickstarter and being developed by budding studio Pixel Trip. The name of the game is The Breakout, both literally and figuratively, and the art style accompanying this title is enough to make…
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Just look at this game. Look at it. Game Atelier is back and looking for help to make a sequel to the original Flying Hamster and it looks phenomenal. It’s cute, it’s crisp, it’s clean, it’s well designed, but will it be good? Only time…
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Warrior Battleground, a brand new hack n’ slash title coming to us from RES Creative Studio has launched their Kickstarter campaign with a promotional video with a surprising amount of blood, pleasing visuals, and a killer soundtrack, but the proof here is in the pudding,…
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In the last few years, we’ve seen… Just… So many damn zombie games to the point where any game featuring zombies is immediately dismissed as “been there done that”. Many games rebrand their zombies by making the fungus or aliens, but not ZeroByte’s Dead Years….
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Platform puzzle games are usually a decent breeding ground for originality and creativity due to how simplistic the mechanics of running and jumping are. It’s a strong familiar foundation that, if built upon correctly, can completely transcend its original genre and become something new and…
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[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ighly customizable games have been all the rage lately, so it’s no surprise to see quite a few looking for a home and some funding on Kickstarter, but unfortunately, in a sea of uninspired Minecraft and Terraria clones, it’s hard to see a gem when…
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[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s a bit of a niche, but there’s a huge audience for train simulation games, and the ground-breaking Trainz: A New Era, currently being developed by N3V Games and successfully funded in December, has just released some info regarding when exactly their game will take…
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Survival and exploration game Frontiers was successfully funded in July of last year, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to give the devs a helping hand in getting their product to as many people as possible. On March 30th, Frontiers was unleashed onto Steam…
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We’ve already talked about Broken Sword: Serpent’s Curse. In fact, our very own Moe Long, Cliqist’s VP of shark punching, has already covered Episode 1, and is putting together a Broken Sword retrospective for fans of the series and newcomers alike. Well, lucky for us…
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[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter a healthy Alpha period, the developers over at Larian Studios are releasing the beta build of Divinity: Original Sin on the Early Access platform of choice: Steam. For those of you who backed the game at the appropriate levels the beta will be available for…
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he gritty reboot of the gritty source material of Carmageddon: Reincarnation has finally begun its decisive Early Access period preempting its full launch, so if you decided to back the game way back in April and June of 2012, you’ll finally get to sample the…
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[dropcap]S[/dropcap]urvival horror, to its long-time friends, is dying off as jump scares and cheap imagery garner all the attention, and many gamers who grew up with Resident Evil or Silent Hill mourn the loss of properly built tension and fear. Now, a few modern-day exceptions…
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[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s not too often that Kickstarter is used to fund an all-out AAA experience, and when such a thing does come to pass, it’s a pretty magical thing. There’s just something about being a direct part of a AAA studio’s path to making a gorgeous,…
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Fans of Contagion, the upcoming Survival-Horror title coming to us from MonochromeLLC, have already been enjoying the title’s Steam-released Early Access, but the full game has yet to be released. We do, however, have a final release date for Contagion, and it’s much sooner than…
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On the 21st, developer Alex Fundora last updated the backers of his dinosaur-riding action survival title, The Stomping Land, and we can’t wait for his next update later in April. He’s already told us all about the full-on dinosaur combat in pretty excellent detail, and…